Excuse the redundancy, but having found the secret to fixing my scanner I find myself needing to ‘re-package’ a few of these old ‘flashbacks’.
I lived near a river called Tamagawa for most of my 9 years in Japan. Without too much of an exaggeration, this long strip of cycling bliss probably saved my sanity on [...]
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Mitake-san (Japan) – Flashback #17
Posted in Cycling, Japan, Longer Trips/Flashbacks, tagged maruishi emperor, mitake-san, ome, tamagawa, tokyo on November 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Nikko (Japan) 2005 – Flashback #16
Posted in Asia / Australia, Cycling, Japan, Longer Trips/Flashbacks, tagged irohazaka, nikko, numata, toshogu shrine on November 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The scanner is back from the dead, so here is another older post beefed up with new pictures.
Cycling buddy Nigel and I did a couple of rides from Tokyo over the years (if you just can’t get enough of him, fret not! He is prominently featured in Flashback #5), starting with a 400 km loop [...]
Eastern Hokkaido (Japan) 1999 – Flashback 15
Posted in Asia / Australia, Cycling, Japan, Longer Trips/Flashbacks, tagged hokkaido, kuril islands on November 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This entry is actually from a while back, but I’ve slapped a couple of photos in and added some more content.
I lived in Japan for nearly 10 years, and rode a lot. Unfortunately, I only did a few ‘real’ trips, the rest being up and down (and up and down, and up and…) the Tama [...]
Boso Hanto (Japan) – Flashback #3
Posted in Asia / Australia, Cycling, Japan, Longer Trips/Flashbacks, tagged boso hanto, kawasaki, tokyo on December 13, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Tokyo is the largest metropolitan area in the world, with nearly 40 million people crammed into the size of Ontario’s Golden Horseshoe, I’d guess. Not the best place for a bike ride, you think? Damn straight, at least if you dare to brave the roads, but there are pockets of green spaces here and there, [...]
